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Confessions (Japanese: 告白, Kokuhaku) is a 2010 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima and based on author Kanae Minato 's 2008 debut mystery novel, which won the 2009 Honya Taisho award (Japan Booksellers Award). [2] Starred by Takako Matsu as Yuko, a junior high-school teacher who's trying to unsolve the death ...
Notable awards. Japanese Booksellers Award (2009) Mystery Writers of Japan Award (2012) Kanae Minato (湊かなえ, Minato Kanae, born 1973) is a Japanese writer of crime fiction and thrillers. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. [1][2] She is a 2015 recipient of the Alex Awards.
Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession. Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession (修道女ルナの告白, Shudojo Runa no kokuhaku) (1976) is a Japanese pink film in the nunsploitation genre starring pop singer Luna Takamura, directed by Masaru Konuma and produced by Nikkatsu. AllRovi reports of the film, "As Konuma is not one to pull political punches ...
Confessions is Stephen Snyder's 2014 translation of Kanae Minato's 2008 debut novel, Kokuhaku. It is a suspense novel that traces the impact of a schoolteacher's act of revenge, and it deals with themes of motherhood and power as well as social issues like AIDS and hikikomori. The novel's chapters are in the form of a one-sided conversation, a ...
Language. Japanese [3] Box office. $131,296 (United States)[5] Audition (オーディション, Ōdishon) is a 1999 horror film directed by Takashi Miike and adapted by Daisuke Tengan, based on the 1997 novel by Ryu Murakami. Starring Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina, the film is about a widower, Shigeharu Aoyama (Ishibashi), who stages a phony ...
Budget. est. $1,000,000 (JPY) Cure (キュア, Kyua) is a 1997 Japanese neo-noir psychological horror - thriller film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of ...
Matter of Trust. Mutual Needs. Poison Ivy: The New Seduction [a] Scorned 2 [a] Shades of Gray (a.k.a. Twisted Passion) [a] Sorceress II: The Temptress. This World, Then the Fireworks [a] Zero Woman: The Accused, Japanese erotic-thriller. Zero Woman: The Hunted, Japanese erotic-thriller.
Love Exposure. Love Exposure (Japanese: 愛のむきだし, Hepburn: Ai no mukidashi) is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the crime of upskirt ...